Interesting read. Most blog posts I've seen about the CAP theorem have an academic feel, this one is more approachable. Really, the CAP triangle is outdated. The trade off in a distributed system is between consistency and availability - you choose partition tolerance when you have nodes networked together.
Interesting read. Most blog posts I've seen about the CAP theorem have an academic feel, this one is more approachable. Really, the CAP triangle is outdated. The trade off in a distributed system is between consistency and availability - you choose partition tolerance when you have nodes networked together.